Venice Against the Sea: A City Besieged
Venice is sinking - six feet over the past 1,000 years. The reasons for this are many. Although there is a natural geologic tendency for some sinking, humans have exacerbated the problem by exploiting on a massive scale underground water resources for industrial purposes. Coupled with these events - and perhaps most significant - are climatic changes all over the globe. The heating of the atmosphere after the last ice age, dramatically speeded up...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0312265948
ISBN13:9780312265946
Release Date:March 2002
Publisher:Thomas Dunne Books
Length:296 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 5.9" x 8.6"
Customer Reviews
1 rating
Very good, gets a little technical towards the end
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
The first three-quarters+ of the book is excellent. It provides a good overview of Venetian history and explains how/why the city is essentially sinking. The author then gets into a TREMENDOUS amount of depth (no pun intended) concerning funding for a proposed gate project, various changes of Italian government, etc.-- probably more than you need to know, certainly more than I needed. Overall, though, the book was very good, even for someone who knows Venice as well as I do.
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